Filed under: Yoga Stuff
This is just silly, but I thought some readers might get a laugh out of it: www.bushyoga.com
Filed under: Yoga Musings
A Yoga Journal market study reports that something like 4 in 5 people who do yoga in the U.S. are women. This is particularly strange when you consider the fact that, throughout the thousands of years of its history, yoga has been practiced and studied almost exclusively by men. So why don’t more men practice yoga now? There are a couple of interesting historical, sociological, and psychological factors that might explain the present gender disparity here in the U.S. I’d like to discuss some of these factors, and also say a few words to try and convince skeptical (especially male) readers to give yoga a shot. My remarks owe a significant debt to an interesting article “Where Are All The Men?” in the March 2007 issue of Yoga Journal and to the historical introduction to yoga which can be found in a wonderful photography book simply entitled “Yoga”, published by Yoga Journal. (more…)
